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Today was one of those days that serves as a reminder of why a person starts this kind of project in the first place. The clouds were showing a kind of texture that looks a bit like fishscales, and as…

It was a dark and stormy night… Sunrise Stats! First light: 6:14 AM Sunrise: 6:43 AM Daylight: 13 hrs, 48 min Heard the thunder growling and moving in when I woke up about four. And the skies were offering a…

The skies this morning were already showing color, forty minutes before sunrise. Gotta love mornings like that! …So long as you have enough space on you memory cards for all the shots you’re going to want to take. Sunrise Stats!…

What a perfect, perfect morning. Above freezing, with clear skies but for some high, thin clouds, gibbous waning moon shining bright along with Jupiter, Regulus, Spica, and Antares. The breeze was light, I had Bobbie for company, and color in…

What a gorgeous morning! Temperature’s up above freezing, the stars were showing in the predawn darkness on the drive in to Red Wing. No thin sliver of a waning crescent moon – today it won’t show on the eastern horizon…

Seen the movie “Kill Bill?” Specifically, the scene where The Bride has just woken up from her four-year coma, unable to move from the waist down. Sitting up, she stares at her feet and says, “Wiggle your big toe. Wiggle.…

It was snowing this morning on the drive in to the Bluff; lovely big thick flakes softly falling to coat the ground with a brand-new fluffy white blanket. At last! At long last! Today is the day to talk of…

What a glorious morning. Though it didn’t start out that way. It started groggy and painful, with a ragged cough from a swollen throat nearly touching off a gag reflex. That plus the thought, what could one day hurt? will…

The most observant among you will have noticed occasional specks in my photographs. Here’s what an unaltered picture looks like right now from my camera at f/22: Drives you crazy, doesn’t it? All those honkin’ HUGE specks all over what…

Sometimes all the planning in the world won’t get you a perfect result. (Actually, most of the time, that’s the case. But planning still helps!) And yet, even an imperfect result can still be perfect – if you see it…